Love Stories for the Earth
A Compendium of Excerpts from My Upcoming Trilogy
I’ve been excerpting serialized excerpts of my upcoming trilogy of novels, which is collectively titled Love Stories for the Earth. The individual books are titled Holy Rivers, Lucky Storms, and The Other Real World. A new excerpt arrives every Tuesday morning, available to paid subscribers.
I have been working and playing steadily on these three books ever since 2009, when I published the revised and expanded edition of my book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings.
I regard Love Stories for the Earth as a fulfillment of the promises I made in Pronoia. They embody all the principles I expressed there. They are wonder tales about people, spirits, and animals whose lives are infused with the spirit of pronoia — joyous curiosity, playful liberation, ingenious love, insurrectionary beauty, sacred activism, and a compassionate devotion to making our world a paradise for all, not just some.
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I’ve made the first two chapters of the trilogy available for free to everyone. Click on this link to read them.
Below are links to all the previous chapters of LOVE STORIES FOR THE EARTH I’ve published in previous newsletters.
New York Times' bestselling author ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN gave me a glowing blurb for my upcoming trilogy. She's one of my favorite thinkers and activists! Here's her praise:
"With his trilogy LOVE STORIES FOR THE EARTH, Rob Brezsny unleashes his wild imagination and his multiple ways of seeing and knowing into a visceral love note. It's a novel that feels like a song, a set of spells, a tantric dance, and fierce fight for this earth.
“Brezsny invites us into a way of dreaming that can weave us back into relationship with each other, with all that has lived and all that will live."
- adrienne maree brown, New York Times Bestselling Author of Pleasure Activism and Grievers Trilogy
Here’s what best-selling author and witch Amanda Yates Garcia says about LOVE STORIES FOR THE EARTH. (Amanda’s fabulous newsletter is here.)
Amanda writes:
“We begin the story of LOVE STORIES FOR THE EARTH, appropriately, on the edge of an ecological apocalypse. But Rob Brezsny is one of the few writers I know who won’t deliver us into the hands of despair.
“Instead he uses his medicinal and ecstatic love for the world to help us become the kind of people who recognize joy as both a weapon and a cure.
“LOVE STORIES FOR THE EARTH was written by a shape-shifter. Reading it, you’ll join the protagonists in becoming ivory-billed woodpeckers, Indian rhinoceroses, and rattlesnakes.
“You’ll become a connoisseur of bark beetles, enjoy a brief moment as the breath of Rimbaud. You’ll team up with Medusa, Skeleton Woman, and Harriet Tubman. You’re in for a wild ride.
“But my favorite part about this book? It’s also a love story. The kind we hardly ever get to read about, with lovers who age and only find each other more exhilarating as they go.
“Lovers who see into each other’s inner worlds, and by the powers of their celebratory gaze, collaborate in bringing talismans of compassion back into the outer world where they can work their magic.
“This is the kind of book that makes you believe in love, and that no matter the horrors of history, life is worth living. LOVE STORIES FOR THE EARTH proves that not only can dreams come true, they can change the world.”
—Amanda Yates Garcia, author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch
Wow high praise from two of the greats!! I am so excited to read this book. You’re wonderful & what they said is true!
Snap crackle pop for exhilaration! Thank you for the vibrant inspiration 🩷⭐️🌳🐦⬛